The strategic service provider will now be able to deliver a broader and deeper set of Azure services to customers globally, Jason Rook, 10th Magnitude’s vice president of customer and partner success, tells CRN.

There a lot of details behind the news that VMware and AWS, rivals for years on the cloud infrastructure debate for years, are now committed to bring VMware's software-defined data center technology to AWS public clouds.

The strategic partnership between Amazon and VMware could solve a real pain point for customers, but a lot needs to go right with the technical integration and pricing before partners deem it a success.